Monday, November 5. 2007
- What real impact will this announcement have on the mobile phone industry?
- What will it take still before end users start caring about this?
- Why have they made this announcement with nothing at all to show, not even an SDK, let alone a mobile phone?
- Why is someone like Qualcomm or NTT Docomo in this consortium, when both are known as having built their existence on proprietary technology and closed service offerings?
- What is HTC doing in this consortium, when they are known as 100% the hardware developers for Microsoft?
- What will an Open Handset Alliance-powered phone look like compared with a Symbian phone or the Apple iPhone?
- Will these phones attract more users to wait tens of seconds or even longer until websites are loaded or data is being updated through a still relatively slow 3G data connection?
- Why will the four handset manufacturers Motorola, HTC, LG and Samsung now be able to build much better phones?
- Will the participating operators open up their user data to support new services such as location-based ones and what will their customers say if this information is known to third party service providers?
- Assuming the software platform is free, since "sponsored" by Google, how much cost reduction will this make possible compared with Nokia's phones who are masters in making good profits with cheap phones?
- How long will some of the members stay loyal to this platform if it does not take off within - say - the next 2-3 years?
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